Box Office: ‘Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1′ On Track For Year’s Best Opening

19 November 2014 11:47 AM, PST | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »

“The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1″ will enjoy the biggest opening of the year, but just how big a launch it receives is a matter of dispute.

Lionsgate, the studio behind the $1.6 billion-grossing franchise, is staking out a broad range, projecting the film will do between $130 million to $150 million when it bows Friday in 4,151 locations in North America. Most analysts are being bolder and predicting the hotly anticipated sequel will pull in $150 million at a minimum, noting that the previous two chapters both eclipsed that mark. Should the film top $160 million, it will be one of the five best opening weekends of all time.

Whatever the final tally, it will trump the $100 million that “Transformers: Age of Extinction” racked up last June — the year’s previous high-water mark.

“This isn’t one of the top-tier Ya series, it’s one of the top-tier series in all of filmdom,” said Jeff Bock, »

- Brent Lang

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